Gospel of John
In this first miracle/sign of the Gospel of John, Jesus is the life of the party by doing this thing.
What is turning water into wine?
Augustine was born in this city.
What is Thagaste?
Augustine adopted this "academic" position that led him to suspend judgment on anything that he was uncertain about.
What is academic skepticism?
What is the Sufi Muslim tradition?
In the prologue, Jesus is compared to this Greek concept.
Augustine, reflecting on his own childhood, believes that these "beings" are evil - consistent with his claim tha we inherit original sin.
What are babies?
This saint was the local priest for Augustine and his mother in Milan. He was also known to read quietly rather than out loud which was rare at the time.
Who is St. Ambrose?
The SiMorgh is a persian pun standing for this number of birds.
What is 30 birds?
Jesus asks the woman at the well for water and then offers her this thing.
What is "living water"?
Augustine argues that the ultimate motivation for wanting to steal pears is this.
What is peer pressure?
This friend of Augustine would refuse to take bribes and was a church judge and teacher. He also used to be addicted to the Roman circuses.
Who is Alypius?
According to mystical traditions, the individual believer aims to achieve this thing with God.
What is union with God?
This woman who is the brother of Lazarus anoints Jesus's feet with costly perfume.
Who is Mary?
Augustine was influenced by this ancient religious tradition that he sought to distance himself from throughout his adult life.
What is Manicheaism?
According to Augustine, evil is not a substance. Instead, it is the privation of this thing.
What is goodness?
In the Dervish and the Princess story, the princess glanced at the dervish for this reason.
What is because she felt pity for the dervish?
In this type of prayer, Jesus prays for his own glorification, for protection for his believers, and for the paraclete/spirit to be upon his believers.
In reading this book, Augustine decided that he wanted to pursue more philosophical learning.
What is Cicero's Hortensius?
In this insincere prayer, Augustine prays for this thing but not yet.
What is chastity?
The birds see this when they finally meet the Simorgh.
What is they see exactly 30 birds (themselves)?
This "doubting" disciple is the one who ends up stating the highest Christology (e.g., making the highest claim about Jesus).
Who is Thomas who says "my Lord, and my God."
Augustine argues that to love someone properly, we have to love them in what?
What is to love them in God?
Augustine, in book 8, points out that he is unable to convert because he has this disordered part of his psyche.
What is a disordered will?
This is the reason why the duck does not want to go on the journey.
What is becoming dirty and getting away from the clean poind?
This teacher and religious leader of the Jews ironically stated that it is better for one person to die than for the nation to die.
This group of rabble rousers were causing all kinds of mischief in Augustine's school days.
Who are the wreckers?
Augustine encounters this "figure" in his vision right before he converts to the Christian faith
In the moth and the flame story, the last moth is praised for doing this thing.
What is merging into the flame?
What is Siloam?
According to the Manichean view, everything that exists has this.
What is matter/substance?
Where is Ostia?
What is the Valley of Detachment?